Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Under these circumstances and under other pressure Capt. Brown concluded to play the game. Yale took their outs and had control of the ball while it was dry, and therefore Harvard was quickly disposed of. But when Wood received the ball it was almost impossible to control it. When Captain Brown learned the state of affairs he concluded so to delay the game that five innings could not be completed. But after three innings had been thus played, Browne was pursuaded by ontside advice that it would be better to play the game as well as possible and after...
...addition to this we have a statement, which we are not allowed to publish. signed by Captain Brown of the Harvard freshman nine, saying that Wood acted solely under his orders...
Thus the responsibility of Saturday's disgraceful exhibition by a Harvard team is in a measure removed from the pitcher, who, as the rest of the nine, acted under the captain's orders...
...over the field. Too much censure cannot be given to him for the part he played in the game. If he had made the slightest effort, the Harvard men present would have supported him. As it was they could not be expected to. The Harvard freshman captain, when he found out that the game must be played should have had his men play their best, even though defeat were certain. Yale got six runs in the first inning This was the only inning in which Harvard made the slightest effort to play. In the following two innings Yale batted...
Harmar, '90, has been chosen captain of Yale's athletic team for the ensuing year...